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(No Model.)

J. S LAWRENCE.

PUZZLE.

N0.55Z,18}7. Patented De0.,3-l, 1895.

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NITED STATES IATEENT rricn.

JOHN S. LAWVRENOE, OF MANI-IEIH, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JACOB H. KOCH AND JOHN E. KOCH, OF SAME PLACE.

PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,187, dated December 31, 1895. Application filed January 19,1895- Serial No. 535,513. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN S. LAWRENCE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Manheiin, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Puzzle, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to puzzles of that class in which spherical rollers 01' members are placed within an inclosure, and are adapted to be arranged at a predetermined point or points by the tilting or manipulation of the inclosure.

The object of this invention is to arrange a series of spherical rollers within a central inclosure bounded by a circular wall of smaller diameter than the main inclosure or container, suitable openings or passages being formed in the central or inner inclosure to provide for the entrance of the rollers.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed. out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a puzzle constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures of the drawings.

The main inclosure 1 consists of a floor or disk 2, bounded by an upstanding circular flange or wall 3, and arranged at the center of said disk or floor is an inner circular wall 4,

constructed of juxtaposed pins, as shown in the drawings. In this inner wall is formed a series of openings or passages 5, which in the 0 construction illustrated are arched and consist of wicket-shaped wires 6. The portion of the floor or disk which is inclosed within the inner wall is provided with spaced sockets 7 each of which is adapted to receive one of the spherical rollers 8, the number of sockets corresponding with the number of rollers, and in the present construction being three. The spherical rollers are preferably provided with distinctive colors or marks, and the portion V of the floor inclosed by the inner wall is dis- 5o tinctively colored to agree with the distinguishin g marks on the rollers, one of said sockets being arranged in each of the colored spaces, whereby the sockets are provided with distinguishing marks corresponding with the 5 5 rollers. \Vithin the inner wall or inclosure is arranged a large ball or roller 9, the size of the same being such as to prevent its escape through the openings provided in the wall for the entrance and escape of the spherical rollers, and the surface of the floor or disk is conveXed, whereby the center isthe highest point thereof, and the spherical rollers seek the inner surface of the outer wall or flange.

This being the construction of the puzzle, 6 5 the operation thereof is as follows: The large ball is arranged within the inner inclosure, or in the space inclosed by the inner wall, while the spherical rollers are arranged in the annular space surrounding the said wall. The object is to cause the spherical rollers to enter the central inclosure through the openings in the inner wall and seat the same in the sockets, each spherical roller being seated in the socket having the distinctive mark which cor- 7 5 responds with the roller. The large ball which is arranged in the inner inclosure serves as an impediment to the attainment or the solution of the puzzle by striking the rollers and displacing or forcing them out of the inclosure through the openings in the wall. The elas- 'ticity of the pins forming the wall of the inner inclosure still further adds to the difficulty of attaining the object of the game by repelling the rollers when they come in contact therewith. 1

It will be understood that in practice various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to Without departing from the spirit or sacri- 9o ficing any of the advantages of this invention. Having described my invention, I claim The herein described puzzle, having a main inclosure provided with a conveXed floor and an inner inclosure having a wall constructed of pins and provided with arched openings or passages, said inner inclosure being adapted to contain a ball or roller of a size which preeludes its passage through said openings, In testimony that I claim the foregoing as spherical rollers being adapted to traverse the my own I have hereto affixed my signature in floor of the main inelosure and pass through the presence of two Witnesses.

said openings, the portion of the floor Within JOHN S. LAXVRENOE. 5 the inner inclosure being provided with sock- Witnesses:

ets for the reception of the spherical rollers, J. U. STROH,

substantially as specified. H. M. BRANDT. 

